Hi, so here is the final chapter! I am so glad that I can give this story the ending it deserved and I want to thank all of you for your extraordinary kind reviews over the course of this story. This was always going to be a short story with a short time frame and I am glad I can know cross this one off my list. But no story is getting told unless people want to read it so my thanks for all eternity to all of you readers both old and new who have taken this story on and have enjoyed it.

I don't know much about Harvard or travel in New York so any inaccuracies I apologise for, I think everyone knows what episode this is based on and I have tried to keep it as accurate as I can.

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Prosecutor's Daughter

Chapter 25-Just Another Normal Day.

Two and a half Years Later

Avri got the phone call in the early hours of the afternoon. She had just gotten out of her criminal law lecture and she had switched her phone off—because the old twit who taught the lecture was a dick at the best of times and phone's ringing in the middle of a debate on weather or not a serial killer worthy of being on an episode of Criminal Minds had been put away using due process was not a good time.

She was meeting Zach and his roommate Montague for lunch. He had been in his sociology class and she turned on her phone to see twelve missed calls and another forty text messages coming in from not only her Dad but also Amanda, Fin, Sonny, Mike and also other people she knew including Lucy. She blinked for a second taking in all the messages. If she didn't know better—and her Dad wasn't still trying to get in touch with her—she would have thought that someone had died. However she did notice on her initial sweep of the messages that there was nothing from Liv and that sent a knot of foreboding curling in her stomach.

There was a pause where she stood there trying to take in all of this information and then she decided to ring Mike. Out of everyone he was the one that Avri knew would not ask what she was doing or where she was but would rather cut to the chase and tell her what was going on. The phone rang only once and then Mike Dodds picked up. The noise in what she assumed was the squad room behind him was so strong Avri had to strain to hear him.

"Hey Mike" she said finally once she could hear him.

"Avri oh thank Go—Rollins I got her! It's not Barba there trying to get too it's Liv"

What the fuck?

"Mike are you ok?" she asked even as she could hear multiple shouts in the background.

"Avri are you still at Harvard?"

"Yes but why are you—"

But Mike cut across her and told her the entire story. Of Shelia Porter and her brother, or at the very least the kid she had come to consider her little brother since her father and Liv had stopped dancing their dance two years ago and moved in together. Avri had known some of it…well she had known about the existence of this woman and her fight for Noah but she had been told that she had retired her fight to become Noah's grandmother and that had been the end of that.

When Mike said the words kidnap she half sunk onto the stone bench that was nearby. Two years of semi-peace and it was all going tits up because of a woman (and she knew it was that woman) that she had never met and had never trusted. She forced herself to half listen to what Mike Dodds was spouting like a broken teapot and then she hung up the phone cutting him off mid sentence.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Well she had to get back, she'd have to move a few things around but she would have to get back to New York and the SVU squad as soon as humanly possible. She stood up shivering as the cold air blasted around her and she was suddenly very aware that the air was cold. It was post Christmas and she bit her lip thinking that Liv had been bemoaning the other week when she had been home about the lack of Noah's winter coat.
She sent Zach a quick SOS text telling him what had happened and what was going to happen and then she went straight back to the dorms, threw a few things into a bag, sent a couple of emails to her faculty advisor informing him of what had happened and where she was going to be in case he was asking, locked up her dorm and then was halfway down the stairs before she even thought to send her Dad a text message.

She dithered for a second on weather or not she should tell him she was coming but she thought it best to not. He was going to have enough on his plate without her constantly bombarding him with information. She half ran to the subway (considering that it was easier for her to take than to get a cab—and a damn sight more expensive not that that mattered when she thought about it) with any luck she would be able to get home before night had fallen.

Rafael had been sat at the kitchen counter pouring the wine for the rest of the team that had shown up unceremoniously without being asked and had planted themselves down as if they lived in his apartment which he supposed considering the amount of time they all seemed to spend there they did. He hoped that they would stop drinking soon because Fin and Sonny had all put polished off the beer and between the two of them Amanda and Mike were going through all of his tonic and most of his good vodka. Liv had gone to put Noah down for bed and Rafael was trying not to compulsively check his phone to see if Avri had rang him.

The hours before had been choked with trying to find Shelia Porter. There had been a run up of so much time that he had hardly had time to see Liv. What had gone on between Liv and Shelia Porter, Rafael did not know but he had arrived to see Liv showing Noah the deer and Mike and Sonny both shooting terrified looks at their boss and handcuffing Shelia Porter in the police car. Liv it seemed had not told Noah what was going on and therefore they had, had to sprit the kid's grandmother away before he could realise what was going on.

Also, there was the fact that he had not seen or heard from his daughter all day. He knew that Avri generally had adopted his advice of turning her cell phone off in the lectures where she had the more…difficult professors and he knew that Mike had spoken to his daughter and therefore had ascertained that she was alive and off free will, which considering at the time they had not known that. When Noah had been taken Rafael's first thought had been of Lewis and what that had entailed and then the threats that had touched his daughter. Both Liv and he had the jobs where people crazy or mad enough would come after their children. Being together only made them a stronger target somehow. And Avri for better or (most likely) for worse was a woman of nearly twenty and knew how to defend herself. She had signed up to at least three self defence classes when she had gotten into Harvard and another three yoga classes so when she was finding time to put his money at good use and study was something he would worry about any other time other than this.

He poured him and Liv both large glasses of wine and swallowed a mouthful of his own as he passed Mike his vodka. The man smiled at him. Mike's wounds still got to him some days when he worked long hours as such he had taken to walking around the squad room when cases went on for too long just so his muscles and the knot of scar tissue he still possessed gave him grief. Jesse was sat with Noah who thankfully didn't have a clue what was going on and Liv had only ducked out of the room in order to find him a book that he wanted and Rafael had no doubt that she had gone to collect herself. Liv had struggled and then accepted Shelia Porter too fast for herself to be truly comfortable. There would be ramifications from this that would go on with his partner for months to come.

He swallowed again checking his phone. Why hadn't she got in touch with him? This morning he could understand but he had called Zach and even he hadn't seen her since this morning. She had gotten word that Liv's son had been kidnapped and then she had disappeared it seemed off the face of the earth. Oh Rafael was going to kill her when she did eventually show up. Actually no that was the wrong description. He was going to hug the shit out of her when she did show up. Then he might kill her. He had been jittery since Liv had called him even though he knew that there was no way that the two kids had been targeted by the same person—at least now he did.

Liv came out and stood next to him.

"You ok?" he asked finally. She shook her head once her lips pressed together as she leaned her head for a second on his shoulder looking at her son playing with Rollin's daughter who was babbling away in a language that once Rafael might have understood but was for now only legible for Noah.

"You heard from Avri since Dodds talked to her?" she asked in response. Rafael shook his head once. "You know when she eventually get's in touch I planned to yell but now I just wanna know she's ok, it's been nearly four hours since Mike talked to her and another twenty two on top of that since I spoke to her last night. I don't know weather or not I want to kill her or hug her"

"Hug her" Liv said without skipping a beat. "You get a second chance with your kids and all you want to do is hug them" her words were kind but considering her eyes were fixated on Noah, Rafael knew and understood that they were not about him.

"You know you can get through this" he said finally. "I did and I had a kid who actually understood what was going on"

Liv smiled though it didn't meet her eyes. Rafael kissed her on her cheek and she leaned against him once more for a second. They didn't show much physical affection in public preferring to be professional on any normal day. But this had not been a normal day.

There was a knock at the door and Liv turned to open it. For a second she stood there and when she turned it was to catch his eye and grin. And then before he could say anything she stepped to one side and then he could see who was there.

Avri.

Thank God.

She looked incredibly windswept like she had ran most of the way here. She was dressed in a loose pair of leggings and a stripy jumper and her boots that had been his daughter's trademark for so long and she had a bag slung over her shoulder. Her hair which she had cut back to her shoulders and added bangs to last year was loose but she was still his daughter and she still had his daughter's dimpled smile.

"I'm sorry" she said throwing her bag on the floor and crossing the room and before he could speak she had thrown herself in her arms. "I'm sorry" she said into his shoulder. "I tried to get an earlier subway but you know what it's like and then traffic was a nightmare and I had to stop to get cash…and the whole thing was a disaster and then my phone went out of battery and then I only just found out that everything was ok."

"S'Ok" he said into her hair closing his eyes in relief and then he swallowed. He was right, he couldn't stay mad at her for long. She was his baby, he had nearly lost her two years ago and Liv had nearly lost her baby today hell he had nearly lost his…well was Noah his son? Oh, that was something he wasn't going to tackle tonight, it had already been too long a day. He was just happy that she was here and she safe.

"Avri!" came a shout and then a human hurricane shot out from behind the small table and hit Avri square in the knees. Avri pulled back grinning and bending so that she could touch Noah's hair and then she was off being pulled down so she was sitting cross legged in the little circle that Noah and Jessie had made listening to the two of them. Rafael took a moment to take in his little girl who had not been so little as of late.

"Cragen and Munch said they might come around later, and Amaro's gonna facetime. He said he might come down but his leg's not good in the winter nor is it good on long planes or drives." Fin said finally swallowing the last of his beer. "I told them you were ok" he said to Liv. "And they both laughed. Said they knew that you were ok. The captain's even been in touch with Elliot, yeah" he said catching Liv's expression of surprise, the pain that came with the knowledge of her old partner and the way that relationship ended and the love for him that Rafael knew was there and wasn't jealous off because there Elliot Stabler had never had eyes for anyone but the woman he had been married too.

"He might ring you too. I think it's time we get the whole gang together, the old and the new"

"And what?" Liv laughed "There's not a bar in New York that won't throw us out. We'd either drink the place dry or destroy the place"

Fin grinned once. "Well that's half the fun" he said with a smile. Liv smiled back and Rafael could tell that it was genuine smile. He reached out and hugged her, sliding a hand around her back and he caught Avri's eye. She smiled again and he realised Fin was still speaking. "I told them that everything was going to be ok" he said reaching for the beer that Sonny Carrisi had just taken out of his fridge. "As far as some days have gone, this is just another normal day"

"Yeah" Rafael said watching his daughter, the prosecutor's daughter, his Avri playing with Noah and Jessie and the team that were surrounding them that had been there when he had needed them and had been there when he had needed them today. When they had needed them today.

It was just another normal day.

And there it is! I hope you all enjoyed this story and this chapter. Again a massive thank you to all of you for your kind reviews. I wish you happy reading and writing in whatever your fandom is.